This Overall Privacy Statement verifies that Gary Stringham & Associates, LLC, (GS&A) takes your privacy seriously. This statement discloses the privacy practices for GS&A’s entire web site. To demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, GS&A has agreed to disclose its information practices.
Your privacy is very important. As part of the normal operation of our site we collect and use information about you and/or your company. This Privacy Policy describes the information we collect about you and what may happen to that information. If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us.
- Information We Collect: In our Contact, White Paper, Survey and any other forms, we may require you to provide us with some or all of your full name, full street address, city, state, zip code, phone number, email address, and answers to survey questions.In the course of using our site, we automatically track certain information about you. This information includes the URL that you came from (whether that URL is on our site or not), which URL you go to next (whether this URL is on our site or not), what browser you are using, your city or country, your company (or ISP) and your IP address. Most internet sites today automatically collect this information to help them better evaluate the effectiveness of their site in reaching their intended audience.In addition, we use cookies on certain pages of our site. Cookies can also help us provide information which is targeted to your interests. Cookies are stored on your hard drive, not on our site. Most cookies are “session cookies,” meaning that they are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, however certain portions of our site may not work if you do so.If you send us personal correspondence, such as e-mails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on the site, we may collect such information into a file specific to you.
- Our Use of Your Information: Internally we use personally identifiable information about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to statistically analyze site usage, to improve our content and product offerings and to customize our site’s content and layout. This information allows us to improve our site and better tailor it to meet our users’ needs.We may also use personally identifiable information about you to deliver information to you that, in some cases, are targeted to your interests, such as banner advertising or e-mail circulars.From time to time we will use your email address and, in rare situations your mailing address or phone number, to contact you regarding administrative notices. We may also use your email address to ask clarifying questions to your answers to survey questions.
- Our Disclosure of Your Information: GS&A does not sell, rent, share or distribute any personally identifiable information of any kind about you to any third party. All information that we collect about you or your company is held confidentially within GS&A. Any company that GS&A forms a partnership with must agree to this non-disclosure of information before we will enter into a formal alliance with them, or in the event that they cannot by law agree to our privacy contract, then we will not allow them access to your personal information. Unfortunately, due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. By way of example (without limiting the foregoing), we may be forced to disclose information to the government or other third parties under certain circumstances, or third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. Further, we can (and you authorize us to) disclose any information about you to law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate. Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect your privacy, we do not promise and you should not expect that your personally identifiable information or private communications will remain private.We reserve the right to use your answers to survey questions in training courses, articles, reports, publications, presentations, newsletters, and other media as desired. We will not use any identifiable information about you personally or your company. The survey answers will be used for the betterment of the profession, to spread best practices, and to learn from failures. It will not be used to belittle or defame you personally or your company.
- Third Party Collectors of Information: Our privacy policy only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose your information to other parties or other sites throughout the Internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the personal information you disclose to them. To the extent that we use third party advertisers, they adhere to their own privacy customs and policies. Since GS&A does not control the privacy policies of third parties, you are subject to the privacy customs and policies of those third parties. We encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your personal information to anyone.
- Security: GS&A uses industry standard efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal identifiable information. However, “perfect security” does not exist on the Internet. Please use caution, common sense and good judgment before you give out personal identifiable information to us, or any other internet site.